The chairman of the north-south centre calls the minister's efforts “an outstanding and very practical contribution to the protection of human rights in a north-south context”.

The Red River corridor goes north to south from Churchill through Winnipeg straight down to Texas, into Mexico, into South America.

STRESSES the central role of the CBD clearing-house for the facilitation and promotion of technology transfer by sharing of relevant information and knowledge and for the promotion of technical and scientific co-operation among Parties to the widest extent possible, including North-South, South-South and South-North;

It was also substantial in southern Italy, central France, Scotland, northern Spain and the Alentejo in Portugal.

The Commission proposes that the Union's financial support should focus on the following five priority objectives: - support for the process of economic modernisation and restructuring of those countries prepared to open their markets in the context of new Association Agreements; - support for structural adjustment in countries less far advanced in this process with a view to preparing them for entering into free trade with the Union; - support for regional cooperation, particularly in the environment; - strengthening of North-South economic and financial cooperation, and among southern and eastern Mediterranean countries themselves, particularly through programmes of decentralised cooperation linking key actors in the cultural, social a ...[+++]nd economic fields (businesses, universities, research centres, local government, media, non-governmental organisations, ...); - support for the Middle East peace process.

The - 12 - Commission will not, I can assure you, resign itself to the fact that the North-South divide remains as wide as ever despite the Community's undeniable efforts to help the Lomé countries and the commitments it has given to the countries of Central and South America and the poor countries of Asia.